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Wattenscheid

Wattenscheid is a Stadtbezirk of the German city of , in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia. Until its incorporation into Bochum in 1975, Wattenscheid was an independent town with a long history dating back to its first recorded mention in 880.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Alte Evangelische Kirche Wattenscheid and Propsteikirche St. Gertrud von Brabant.

Church
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is a church.

Church
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is a church.

Hospital
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bochum-Westenfeld and Günnigfeld.

Suburb
Westenfeld is a part of the former town of Wattenscheid in the Ruhr area in . Westenfeld now belongs to the city of . Westenfeld has the railway station in Wattenscheid which is most frequented by passengers.

Suburb
is a district of , a city in the Ruhr area of , western . belongs to the Stadtbezirk of Wattenscheid, Germany, which was a town until 1974 and is now part of Bochum.

Suburb
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is the northwesternmost part of the city of in the Ruhr area in in . The population used to speak Westphalian, but now standard German is the commonly used language.

Wattenscheid

Latitude
51.48171° or 51° 28′ 54″ north
Longitude
7.13566° or 7° 8′ 8″ east
Population
71,400
Elevation
82 metres (269 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE DHW
Open location code
9F39F4JP+M7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1587464635
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2813635
Wiki­data ID
Q492224
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wattenscheid” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wattenscheid”
  • Aragonese: “Wattenscheid”
  • Armenian: “Վատտենշտադտ”
  • Arpitan: “Wattenscheid”
  • Asturian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Basque: “Wattenscheid”
  • Bavarian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Breton: “Wattenscheid”
  • Catalan: “Wattenscheid”
  • Chinese: “瓦滕沙伊德”
  • Chinese: “華登舒特”
  • Corsican: “Wattenscheid”
  • Croatian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Czech: “Wattenscheid”
  • Danish: “Wattenscheid”
  • Dutch: “Wattenscheid”
  • Esperanto: “Wattenscheid”
  • Estonian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Finnish: “Wattenscheid”
  • French: “Wattenscheid”
  • Friulian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Galician: “Wattenscheid”
  • Georgian: “ვატენშაიდი”
  • German: “Bochum-Wattenscheid”
  • German: “Stadtbezirk Bochum-Wattenscheid”
  • German: “Wattenscheid”
  • German: “Wattsche”
  • Hebrew: “ווטנשייד”
  • Hungarian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Icelandic: “Wattenscheid”
  • Ido: “Wattenscheid”
  • Indonesian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Interlingua: “Wattenscheid”
  • Interlingue: “Wattenscheid”
  • Irish: “Wattenscheid”
  • Italian: “Bochum - Wattenscheid”
  • Italian: “Bochum-Wattenscheid”
  • Italian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Japanese: “ヴァッテンシャイト”
  • Kongo: “Wattenscheid”
  • Ligurian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Limburgan: “Wattenscheid”
  • Lithuanian: “Vatenšeidas”
  • Low German: “Wattenscheid”
  • Low German: “Wattsche”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wattenscheid”
  • Malagasy: “Wattenscheid”
  • Malay: “Wattenscheid”
  • Minangkabau: “Wattenscheid”
  • Narom: “Wattenscheid”
  • Neapolitan: “Wattenscheid”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wattenscheid”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wattenscheid”
  • Norwegian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wattenscheid”
  • Picard: “Wattenscheid”
  • Piemontese: “Wattenscheid”
  • Polish: “Wattenscheid”
  • Portuguese: “Wattenscheid”
  • Romanian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Romansh: “Wattenscheid”
  • Russian: “Ваттеншайд”
  • Russian: “Ваттеншейд”
  • Sardinian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Scots: “Wattenscheid”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wattenscheid”
  • Serbian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Sicilian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Slovak: “Wattenscheid”
  • Slovenian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Spanish: “Wattenscheid”
  • Swahili: “Wattenscheid”
  • Swedish: “Wattenscheid”
  • Swiss German: “Wattenscheid”
  • Turkish: “Bochum-Wattenscheid”
  • Turkish: “Wattenscheid”
  • Turkish: “Wattsche”
  • Venetian: “Wattenscheid”
  • Vietnamese: “Wattenscheid”
  • Vlaams: “Wattenscheid”
  • Volapük: “Wattenscheid”
  • Walloon: “Wattenscheid”
  • Welsh: “Wattenscheid”
  • Wolof: “Wattenscheid”
  • Yue Chinese: “華登舒特”
  • Zulu: “Wattenscheid”

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